Icecream Princess wrote:Kazmr wrote:to Icecream: Every GCR has a history of coups. By extension every GCR resident is in the same position as me.
Not really. When one looks at Balder for example, it has only had one coup early on its history before it reverted back. Last year it underwent a Lawful reformation. I haven't decided on the exact title.
Kazmr wrote: NES and others in the PRL are a lot more like The situation in Osiris, where the individuals ultimately removed were more interested in simply keeping the region inactive or subservient.
This is absurd, the success rate of independents and imperialists when it comes to region building continues to be far superior to that of defenders. Let us not forget that TRR and Lazarus are by far the most inactive of the sinkers and widely considered to be the "sick men" of the sinkers. Also, let us not forget the fact that Lazarus has had issues with manipulators but these were defenders similar to Glen-Rhodes who cared and continue to care more about controlling regions rather than building them up.
Lazarus to my knowledge still has not apologized for it's gross misconduct although it has paid the price of its poor policies. This can be seen via the NLO coup, delegates accidentally resigning & the continual inactivity.
Balder is also significantly younger than Lazarus. In the time that Balder has been around, there are only two events in Lazarus that could in some way be called a coup. So yes, the idea that because I'm from Lazarus and therefore that somehow warps my perspective on coups is ridiculous.
As for independents and imperialists, I'm sorry, but thats certainly not true. Balder and Osi might be more active at the moment, but like everywhere, things go in cycles. Not too long ago it was literally the opposite, where TRR and Laz wildly outpaced Balder and Osiris in activity. Sometimes regions are more active, sometimes not. Also, I have literally never heard us called the "sick men", so I'm not really sure how you can claim that thats a wide opinion.
This opinion, though, is what I find to be the MOST toxic thing far and away about independents, and why they never get along with defenders. Anyone voicing a defender viewpoint for a region or simply making friends with defender regions is attacked, slandered, accused of being subservient to outside influences, etc. Essentially, friendliness to defenders is simply not recognized as something which can benefit a region, and thus anyone espousing it is dismissed as dangerous. Thats why someone like GR can be accused of devious scheming when in fact he was open during his entire career that he thought TSP could benefit from making friends with defenders. He never made that a secret, and yet his opponents act like we should all be surprised when he pushes a treaty with a region like Lazarus, as if he somehow tricked us. Meanwhile someone pushing relations with an independent or raider aligned region and its taken without question.
Btw, would you mind letting me know who you are? Its not very fun arguing with an anonymous puppet constantly throwing shade at you. Sounds like Rach?
SouthMac wrote:Kazmr wrote:To my best frenemy Cormac: NES and others in the PRL are a lot more like The situation in Osiris, where the individuals ultimately removed were more interested in simply keeping the region inactive or subservient.
This demonstrates what I will charitably call an, umm,
imperfect understanding of the situation that led to dissolution of the Kemetic Republic of Osiris and establishment of the Osiris Fraternal Order -- two separate events, the former with much broader support than the latter.
You can accuse Biyah of many things in relation to Osiris, but you can't accuse him of being
inactive or keeping Osiris inactive. That was not the nature of the problem the community had with him, it was more that he was using his positions of power -- specifically, in the days before the OFO, his admin position -- to maintain unelected power, to pursue his own agenda over the community's needs, and to hinder the government every step of the way as it pursued change. Sound familiar? It should, because the exact same sentence could accurately be written about Glen-Rhodes and Kringalia in TSP.
Notice that I said inactive
or subservient, the latter being the case with Biyah.
Kazmr wrote:In this case, Glen and Kris in TSP, on the otger hand, actually worked to build up the region, but had a different vision than the cabal currently in power.
You have a curious definition of building up TSP. In his time as Minister of Foreign Affairs, Glen-Rhodes dismantled the diplomatic corps and deprived the "Ministry" of Foreign Affairs -- if you can even call a ministry of one an actual ministry -- of any activity that wasn't undertaken exclusively by him and for his own ends. When he got his hands on SPINN, TSP's newspaper, it stopped producing anything. Much more importantly, Glen-Rhodes and Kringalia have driven many citizens away from TSP, including longtime citizen Brutland and Norden, who acted as lead against Milograd's coup in 2013.
Admittedly, Kringalia's participation in TSP was more substantive, but his vitriol was often even more effective than Glen's in driving people from the region. Neither he nor Glen-Rhodes simply "worked to build up the region." It is far more complicated than that, and in the case of Glen-Rhodes I would argue that he did nothing to build up TSP's community, only to further his interests.
I personally admired the way Glen conducted his foreign affairs, and honestly, if I'm ever in that position in Lazarus, I will seriously consider following his model. I've never been one for embassy updates, which frankly is the entire function of just about every foreign 'ministry' in NS. In just about all cases, foreign policy is basically a function of the foreign minister and, usually depending on how cabinet members are selected, the delegate.
In TSP's case, I found his approach very rational. He was quite open about what he wanted to accomplish, and was elected several times with those views in the public, meaning that for quite a long time most in TSP agreed with his stance.
Kazmr wrote:Stuff like the treaty between Laz and TSP was not at all an attempt to manipulate TSP in some malicious way, as it has been so often characterized. Glen's view was simply that the future of TSP would be more positive with defender regions. He was elected as foreign minister multiple times and never hid that view. For people like you (at the moment) and others who are against defenderdom, he is wrong, and any such views are so commonly portrayed as "against the regions interests" by you lot. This coup is all about politics, its a power play pure and simple.
This has nothing to do with "defenderdom" among the people supporting the Transitional Government in TSP, but it's telling that the perpetual R/D conflict is immediately where
your mind went. The issue is not that Glen-Rhodes was a defender in TSP, the issue is that he was willing to tear down, drive out, divide and conquer, in order to accomplish his ends -- and that would be an issue whether he had been a defender, a raider, or something in between. Ripping the community apart to pursue the interests of a foreign ideology, and power for one's self, should always be frowned upon.
Except there are other people in this thread straight up saying that they think defenders fail at region building, and yes, that is exactly why people holding those views are attacked. In most regions, you
can do those exact things as, say, an independent and get excused by most people since its 'in the region's interests'.
And I like how you call it a "foreign ideology", because that gets to the heart of it. He was never secret about his ideology, and got elected while making it publicly known. What you're basically saying is exactly why I made my point about defenderism: to independents or anyone else, it
is considered a foreign ideology, so espousing it gets you attacked, and you end up in the situation we have now.
Ridersyl wrote:I'll admit, when I saw that it was freakin'
Kazmr voicing opposition to this coup, I went 'Hey, wait a minute, that's not right.'
It's like seeing Tony the Tiger voicing opposition to cereal. Just.. what.
What is that supposed to mean? Like... I'm supposed to be a supporter of coups? Or that I'm
not supposed to oppose a flagrant breach of power and the expulsion of people I have long had a positive working relationship with?
As for other points Ive missed or replying more, don't really have time to write anymore because my laptop's battery is almost dead and I'm about to get on a bus for nine hours, so... yeah.